jEdit Reviews

Impressive developers editor

I have used jEdit for many years and have loved it and the plugins. Keep up the great work!

jEdit is a very powerful and flexible text editor. Especially for Java and XML jEdit is simply great. Features that I find particularly useful include the great search functionality (regular expressions, search and replace over entire directory trees), syntax highlighting and auto-indentation for loads of programming languages, and the integrated shell (w/ console plugin). Things that are not so great are the rather slow startup, the poor performance on very large files and the poor spell checker plugin (needed e.g. for (La)TeX).

JEdit manages to positively surprise me even after years of working with it, which further improves convenience in everyday use. To me it is just the perfect Programmer's Editor, stuffed with useful features, perfect handling and decent performance. Everything that I ever wanted was already there, big kudos to the developers !

jEdit has been my editor of choice since 2001. Highly customizable shortcuts & macros, indentation based code folding, and loads of plugins make this a MUST HAVE tool for any serious programmer.

Easily the most flexible editor I've ever used. Beanshell allows powerful macros to be created, and considering the amount of features and plugins (which can be dynamically loaded/unloaded) it performs very well.

Excellent and versatile editor for all-purpose tasks.